The table give illustrates about the number on visitor statistics for 1996, 1998 and 2000 for various World Heritage sites in Australia.
In general, we can see from the table that, the number of the traveler to Great Barrier Reef, Blue Mountains and Shark Bay were increased. At the same time, the figure for Central Eastern Rain Forest Reserve, Tasmania Wilderness experienced a decrease, while the number of visitor to Shark Bay and Macquarie Island had a fluctuate trend.
In 1996, Great Barrier Reef reached the top of list about the number of traveler arrived in with 1,670,000 people. Following that was Central Eastern Rainforest Reserve with 810,000 people which was almost 300,000 people higher than the number of visitor to Blue Mountain. While, Tasmania Wilderness had 450,000 people visited in and this number was around 3 times higher than the number of visitor to Shark Bay. At the same year, Macquarie became a less attracted site with visitor and reached the lowest place of list with just 350 people arrived in.
From 1998 to 2000, Great Barrier Reef experienced a significant rise to 3,200,000 people. This trend also true for Blue Mountains although it just a slight increased from 565,000 people to 581,000 people. the number of people visit to Tasmania Wilderness was the same from 475,000 people jump to 483,000 people through 2 years. Another site from list had opposite trend, particularly is Central Eastern Rain Forest with the decreased from 790,000 travelers to 770,000 travelers.
At the same period Tasmania Wilderness and Macquarie Island witnessed a small variation from 84,000 people jump to 102,000 people in 1998, while this number was almost 20,000 people decreased through 2 years later. The figure for Macquarie Island had the same trend from 350 people in 1996 and 40 people decreased in 1998. However, had a small increased in 2000 with 330 people.